Digital Cloud Solution Architect - Azure

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**Overview** Cloud Solution Architect - Azure SMB Proactively engages with and coaches team to identify and engage with key customer technical decision makers. Uses comprehensive knowledge of customer context and market/industry knowledge to establish credibility. Leverages knowledge of resources, with limited managerial support, to assess and remediate blockers. Maximizes the impact of customer engagements through capacity planning. Maximizes subsidiary level capacity and capabilities of scaling through partners by coaching team to grow partner network within the Microsoft ecosystem. Builds knowledge of team by enabling learning. Applies and guides colleagues to use existing demonstration assets. Coaches team to monitor action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products. Ensures architects are equipped with the capabilities and means to deliver architectural demonstrations. Drives validation of pilots across multiple accounts. Sets expectations for team around methodology and governance, and ensures that team identifies business risks. Builds customer timelines and drives the customer's digital transformation initiative. Enables and empowers team to develop technical expertise and provide technical insights to internal teams. Shares ideas and strategic input with team members. Leads contributions of content and expertise. Plans or coaches team to conduct one-to-many events to present and educate customers on the capabilities of using specific Microsoft solutions/products. **Responsibilities** ### Architecture Design and Deployment Creates a culture and clarity around technical insights and escalations, and ensures broad sets of projects move forward. Coaches team on practices for handling escalations. Leads customer/partner projects that implement technical architecture(s).Provides thought leadership for related business strategy development and guides architect team in supporting the customer/partner throughout pre-sales and/or implementation. Ensures architects are equipped with the capabilities and means to deliver architectural demonstrations, and provides coaching to allow architects to scale solutions. Sets expectations for team around methodology and governance, and ensures that team identifies, communicates, and/or minimizes business and/or technical risks, defines customer/partner conditions of success, adheres to quality assurance, and calculates risks whilst designing and/or delivering solutions. Drives validation of pilots, proof of concept (POC), and value (e.g., optimizing solutions and costs) across multiple accounts to prove the proposed architecture designs by ensuring that the conditions for success are in place. Ensures that pilots executed by the team are rooted in business impact. Appropriately leverages growth levers (e.g., Azure Credit Offer [ACO]) to ensure successful adoption of POCs.  ### Driving Customer Success Acts as a leader around rhythm of business and pursues opportunities for optimization, proactively discusses potential business opportunities with customers. Holds peer teams accountable, and brings insights to drive Microsoft success. Drives One Microsoft mindset by orchestrating various resources for the customer. Identifies gaps and drives new workloads through communication of financial value to the customer, collaborating with sales team and driving new workloads. Leverages their network and industry experience to connect customers with ideas, people, and resources to new support customer opportunities. Sets large-scale business goals for the customer to achieve through optimal cloud architecture(s).Creates a long-term, strategic vision (e.g., joint ventures, partnership for a line of business) to increase profitability. Ensures C-level support for established goals and long-term strategic plan. Assists in finding potential partners, including partners with diverse capabilities and experiences. Builds customer timelines in conjunction with partners, establishes measurement of value, demonstrates ability to accelerate the customer's time-to-value, and drive the customer's digital transformation initiative. Contributes to alignment of multiple engagement plans. Acts as the Voice of the Customer by acting as a role model for leveraging various internal resources (e.g., OneList, End Customer Investment Funds) and mentoring peers on practices around internal resource usage. Participates in Microsoft centric operations and cadences to align with customers as needed. Acts as a go-to resource for customer success.  ### Scale Customer Engagements Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center, demo sites, virtual sites), with limited managerial support, to assess and remediate technical and non-technical blockers by engaging other teams (e.g., engineering, Account Team Unit, Specialist Team Unit) and conveying impact. Consolidates cases of common blockers in the area and drives appropriate escalation activities. Proactively engages with, reaches out to, and coaches and enables team to identify and proactively engage with key customer technical decision makers and influencers. Anticipates industry trends and utilizes information on customer business, industry, needs, and key priorities to position organization to deliver architectures that account for changing industry landscapes across multiple accounts. Proactively seek to keeps up to date with customer information, industry and market trends, and compliance regulations. Enables and empowers team to lead and win customer technical decisions by streamlining processes and managing the flow of wins, leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider, co-sell partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds). Uses comprehensive knowledge of customer context, cross-solution or portfolio expertise, and deep technical and market/industry knowledge to establish and enhance credibility with customers individually or at scale. Provides feedback on team resources and maximizes the impact of customer engagements through capacity planning, prioritization, capabilities assessment, and utilization of resources. Receives instructions to prioritize resources and maximizes selling time to achieve scorecard objectives and subsidiary strategy.  ### Scale Through Partners Applies, customizes, and guides colleagues to use existing demonstration assets. Demonstrates and oversees demonstrations (e.g., Architectural Design Sessions, Proof of Concept sessions, pilots, hackathons) of solutions and position solutions against competitors. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and programmatic framework for re-use by the business. Leads the review of partner demonstrations and supports partners to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards. Maximizes subsidiary level capacity and capabilities of scaling through partners by coaching team to grow partner network, identifying gaps, and promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams).Raises escalations or alleviates blockers through collaboration with manager-level counterparts in cross-functional groups. Builds knowledge of team by enabling learning and identifying experts to share knowledge. Enables team to share complete knowledge with internal teams, influence compete strategies, and highlight Microsoft advantages during architecture and capability discussions. Coaches team to monitor, analyze, or implement action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage in a productive way.  ### Technical Leadership Shares ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with team members with (e.g., C-level) leaders. Provides thought leadership by providing deep insight and driving critical decisions that impact Microsoft and the industry. Leads teams across boundaries and actively pursues opportunities that grow impact and capabilities of the broader organization. Plans, conducts, or coaches team to conduct one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, webinars) to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits of using specific Microsoft solutions/products. Ensures customer cloud platform enablement by gaining buy in at the C-level for cloud platform readiness and orchestrating various resources within Microsoft, partner, and customer resources to get them on board with Microsoft's cloud platform environment readiness initiative. Establishes long-term cloud adoption maturity model. Tracks milestones, progress, and value realization. Drives loyalty and accelerates cloud adoption by fostering champions within the customer who proactively engage in and sustain their own learning. Leads contributions of content and expertise, and ensures team members participate in tech communities. Enables and empowers team to develop technical expertise and provide technical insights to internal teams. **Qualifications** ### Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR Relevant certifications from Microsoft or platforms AND experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR experience in technical architect, technical consulting, design and implementation, and/or technical sales OR equivalent experience. Digital Cloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 80,000.00 - € 151,700.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. --- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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